Interesting Road Names

We were looking through some forms that came in the office yesterday and someone gave their work address as being in a place called 'Salubrious Passage'. I shit you not. And it wasn't a sex worker, either. Any more?

Lincolnshire has some curios; I know of ‘Labour-in-vain’ Drove near Coningsby and Poverty Lane near Louth, and Horncastle has a street called ‘The Wong’. This is nothing to do with Chinese people; ‘wong’ is an old Norse word for pasture, apparently. Hastings has a ‘Penistone Road’ which always raises a smirk- the houses are all semis. I also remember hearing about a police station on ‘Letsby Avenue,’ but suspect this to be apocryphal.

Transcontinental contribution. In Lesotho's (particularly) mountainous region there is a sweeping section of modern road, simply signposted 'God Help Us Pass'

Up until now I've thought it referred to a bygone especially dangerous and precarious stretch of carriageway. But now I come to write it down I realise it could be a reference to slow moving caravans or heavy goods vehicles.

Rikkor’s example reminds me; near Uckfield, Sussex, signs indicating the River Uck are cut away to stop vandals expressing their creativity. The village of Hucking in Kent has a similar problem, and there used to be a sign on the dual carriageway that read ‘No Hucking U-turn’.

Carrying on the theme of tampered signs: The famous gay area of manchester is Canal Street. I don't think I've ever seen the sign without the initial letters blacked out. ( I used to do some consultancy for a number of bars there - Honest)

There is an estate agent in Banbury caller Ankers. They have to get the whitewash out every Monday morning.